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Is the split incentive problem worse for college student renters: an analysis of landlord self-reported and hypothetical choices?
In the residential housing sector, energy conservation issues may arise in the relationship between landlords and renters (a.k.a. tenants) due to...
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Is there a Principal-Agency Problem with Real Estate Agents in Rental Markets?
This paper examines the principle-agency problem between landlords and real estate agents using novel data on rental contracts. Real estate agents...
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Valuing options to renew at future market value: the case of commercial property leases
In this study, we develop and empirically test a valuation model for a commonly encountered option in office leases: a tenant’s option to renew at...
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Revolutionized life: long-term effects of childhood exposure to persecution on human capital and marital sorting
This paper investigates the effects of early-life exposure to persecution risk on human capital formation and marital sorting, while also analyzing...
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Dimensions of Discrimination: Discrimination in Housing
People from religious or ethnic minorities or other historically disadvantaged groups frequently face discrimination when they seek rental housing....
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The Impact of Measurement and Pricing Cost on Rental Transaction Prices – Evidence from the Institutional Rental Housing Market in Bei**g
Transaction cost is high in the housing rental market due to heterogeneity of the housing units and associated quality of services provided by the...
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Dimensions of Discrimination: Discrimination in Housing
People from religious or ethnic minorities or other historically disadvantaged groups frequently face discrimination when they seek rental housing....
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The Legacy of Concertaje in Ecuador
This chapter summarizes the work in Rivadeneira (2023), where I use hand-collected and digitized historical tax records from Ecuador’s Spanish...
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Price Rigidity and Vacancy Rates: The Framing Effect on Rental Housing Markets
This paper proposes a new explanation for housing rent price rigidity. When high inflation or low inflation occurs, the bargaining process for new...
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Strategic discrimination and the emergence of systematic exclusion
This paper studies how individuals consider other individuals’ preferences when selecting whom to include in a group or network in the absence of any...
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Christian Landlords: Sinners Need Not Apply
As practicing Christians, Kevin Thomas and Joyce Baker refuse to rent their residential properties in Anchorage, Alaska, to unmarried couples. Their...
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Role of e-commerce and resource utilization for sustainable business development: goal of economic recovery after Covid-19
This study seeks to granularly document the fundamental aspects of the pandemic and its effect on the global scale and environmental steadiness....
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The perils of regulation and the theory of interventionism – an application to the Berlin rent freeze
This paper studies the Berlin rent freeze introduced in 2020 and repealed in 2021. While the so-called Berliner Mietendeckel did lower rents in the...
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Supply Constraints and Search Equilibrium in Office Markets
We present a new conceptual framework to estimate office supply elasticity, where net business survival, physical and economic mismatch are used to...
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Working from home, wages, housing prices, and welfare
This paper studies the effects of working from home (WFH) on wages, housing prices, utilities and welfare in a simple model. The model consists of...
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Risks for Farming Families in the Roman World
This chapter seeks to model how climate would have impacted farmers in the Roman world. Climate naturally had a significant effect on this...
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The political economy of imperial power successions in ancient China
This paper studies the succession of power between emperor and crown prince in imperial China as a political game. We begin by develo** a model of...
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Acemoglu & Johnson’s “Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology & Prosperity”
This review examines the main arguments presented in the book “Power and Progress” by Acemoglu and Johnson. The review proceeds in two steps. First,...
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Local perspectives on the adverse environmental effects and reclamation of illegally mined degraded landscapes in North-western Ghana
In Ghana, there is a consensus that all the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) degraded landscapes should be restored to ecologically...
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Geography, landownership inequality, and literacy: historical evidence from Greek regions
Our work sheds light on the joint role of human capital and geography during the early stages of the transition from stagnation to growth in early...
